Chapter 109: The Journey of Grief and Indignation
The commander of the gendarmerie regiment watched his brothers being beaten, and his face turned blue and white with anger
"You go to the neighborhood to find a phone number, call Commander Guo directly, and say that the 16th Regiment has rebelled. Request support! "The commander of the gendarmerie is starting to make a bad move
In 1936, Guo Cheng, who was fully recommended by Chen Cheng and concurrently served as the commander of the Wuhan garrison (chief of staff Xu Shiqi), was one of the four King Kongs of Chen Cheng's civil engineering department, and won Chen Cheng's trust, and within the Kuomintang Central Army, Chen Cheng was the opposite faction of He Yingqin, and after the Lugou Bridge Incident, Chen Cheng's civil engineering department gradually surpassed He Yingqin's faction.
"Commander, the commander said to let you report the situation yourself. It is now night, and the rash mobilization of the city defense troops is easy to cause panic, and the third division will be sent to the front line this evening, and if it is intercepted now, I am afraid that it will affect the battle of Wuhan, and it is difficult to explain to Chief Chen. "The gendarmes who had been sent out to make a phone call came back and reported,
"Pick them up and we'll go!" The commander of the gendarmerie said,
"Master Zhao, this matter is not over yet." Before leaving, the commander of the military police regiment left a cruel word to Zhao Xitian and left
The troops of the Third Division began to board the bus, and He Jianye watched the brothers slowly board the bus, standing aside without saying a word, always feeling that there was something panicked in his heart
"Regiment commander, the division commander called you over." Zeng Da pointed to the dispatch room next to him,
"Hmm" He Jianye walked towards the dispatch room,
Entering the dispatch room of Hankou Station, He Jianye looked at the simple dispatch room and there was no one except Zhao Xitian, and saluted Zhao Xitian with a little confusion, and said,
"Commander, are you looking for me?"
"He Jianye, are you still angry about the Xuzhou battlefield? In the Third Division, are you still afraid that you will not be able to get combat merits? With your ability and the toughness of the 16th Regiment, you don't have everything after a battle, so why bother to provoke the gendarmes? Zhao Xitian said,
"Yes and no," He Jianye said,
"Oh? How so? Zhao Xitian asked,
"I am angry because the brothers who fought and died behind enemy lines with me were not treated fairly. I don't care about my promotions or military exploits, I care about the brothers who follow me from birth to death. They were under my command, abandoning life and death to complete their tasks, and people died, but they did not get what they deserved because of me; I panicked. He Jianye said,
"Hey! No one in the military command or the political department can afford to provoke it! He Jianye, seeing that the war is imminent, I will make it clear to you first, during the war, I will ensure that you are okay, and after the war, I can't do anything; I hope you plan ahead. Zhao Xitian said meaningfully,
"Master Xie, I understand." He Jianye said,
"Let's go! Seeing that the train was about to leave, we got on the train. After Zhao Xitian finished speaking, he pushed open the door of the dispatch room and walked towards the train, and He Jianye followed listlessly behind
He Jianye did not go to the officer's carriage, but went directly to the wagon of the 16th Regiment, and squeezed into the stewed tank carriage with the guard company and the reconnaissance company, and the disgusting smell did not seem to exist in He Jianye's nose at all, He Jianye sat on the straw and closed his eyes to recuperate
"Tut, tut, tut" As the train started, the shaky movement finally pulled He Jianye back to the carriage, and suddenly, He Jianye felt that the smell was indeed a little big
"Commander, in fact, the brothers don't blame you at all. We have already taken enough money to sell our lives, and we have earned one more day of life and an extra reward. In the dull carriage, He Guangquan spoke.
"Yes! Commander, the brethren don't blame you. Inside the carriage, everyone began to talk nonsense,
"Thank you, thank you, brethren; But I couldn't get past myself, and after the war, those who were alive remembered to help the dead brothers report to their families, and they didn't have to come back after reporting the letters. He Jianye said,
"Commander, are those gendarmes still refusing to let you go! It doesn't matter, Captain, where you're going; Wherever the brethren go! Brethren, do you say? Zhu Yun said,
"Yes, when the regimental commander arrives, we will follow there. There is also a head of the regiment to go to the Hades Hall together, we are not afraid! Li Mingguang, the second platoon commander of the guard company, spoke,
The noisy noise lasted for half an hour, and He Jianye told the brothers to rest, I was afraid that it would not be so easy to get off the train, and then he half lay on the wall of the carriage and began to close his eyes and recuperate
On July 6, 1938, the Third Division arrived in Jiujiang, and the Eighth Army led by Li Yutang had arrived in Jiujiang as early as July 1, accompanied by Li Yutang's arrival of the Eighth Army's Reserve Second Division, Reserve Eleventh Division, and Fifteenth Division.
Commander Li Hanxun, commander of the 29th Army Corps, arrived in Jiujiang on July 6 to discuss combat matters with Liu Xing, Li Yutang and others; According to the order, the Eighth Army was arranged to build fortifications in the area along the lake from Xingzi to Jiujiang, and the defense line was more than 30 kilometers long, and according to the strength of the Eighth Army, it was impossible to deploy defenses everywhere, and only a few key points were to be held, among which the reserve 11th Division was arranged to build a defense line in Gutang, the northernmost part of the Eighth Army's defense line, to prevent the Japanese army from landing, the 15th Division was arranged to be arranged in the Gaolong area near Gutang, and the 3rd Division was to build a defense line in the Chenjialing area with the 2nd Reserve Division, ready to support at any time.
After getting off the train at the Jiujiang Railway Station, the Third Division, under the efforts of division commander Zhao Xitian, replenished a lot of ammunition and equipment from the warehouses in Jiujiang, and then set off for Chenjialing, a predetermined area
"The 16th Regiment, arrive at the Chengqiang Mountain in Chenjialing first to build a defensive line, and set off immediately." The herald of the division headquarters is conveying the orders of the division headquarters to He Jianye,
"The sixteenth regiment, the reconnaissance company opened the way, the rest of the brothers followed in a field formation, and the second battalion protected the baggage company and the transport company. Let's go! Although He Jianye was very unhappy, he still didn't dare to play his temper on the battlefield of resistance against Japan, and honestly carried out the orders of the division headquarters
"Commander, Jiujiang is bordered by the Yangtze River in the north and Panyang Lake in the east; It's hard to keep! This time, the brothers had to struggle under the fire of the devils. Leng Qi said worriedly,
"Yes! However, no matter how difficult it is, we must carry out the order, supervise all battalions and companies to dig up artillery bunkers, and must not be sloppy, and strengthen as much as possible if we can. Do you understand? He Jianye said,
"Don't worry, the head of the regiment, I will personally supervise the inspection." As he spoke, Leng Qi followed the pace of the reconnaissance company and led the leading troops towards the city wall mountain
"Commander, I brought our own radio station this time, do you want to contact home?" Zeng Da asked He Jianye in a low voice during the march,
"Don't worry, the guns and ammunition supplied in the war zone this time are enough, let's wait and talk!" He Jianye said,
After the Japanese Botian detachment and the 106th Division captured Pengze on June 29, they attacked Hukou again, Jiujiang was already within the range of Japanese artillery fire, and the 16th Regiment, under the leadership of He Jianye, walked for 6 hours while carrying a large amount of baggage, crossed 20 kilometers of dense water network and muddy roads, and arrived at Chengqiang Mountain at 2 o'clock in the morning on July 7.
"How's it going?" He Jianye asked Yang Xiaoshi, who came to report,
"Commander, it's not easy to get it! Although the hill wall is located in a hilly area, the fortifications are not easy to dig, stones appear in the earth from time to time, and there are no large trees around us to build fortifications, and the mountain is not very high. Yang Xiaoshi said,
"yes, got it." He Jianye said,
"The cooking class first cooked for the brothers in the field, and the brothers did not be idle, and began to build fortifications, the first battalion built a position in Longmengou, the second battalion was in Zengjialong, and the third battalion went to Hucun; The regimental headquarters was located on the hill of the city wall. Don't fool around the fortifications! This time we have to face the devil's naval artillery, which is much more powerful than the devil's army's heavy artillery. He Jianye yelled at everyone to arrange tasks.